BIB_ID
363655
Accession number
MA 49.69
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Apr. 23-24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland / near / Dumfries."
Docketed in pencil in an unknown hand.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed in pencil in an unknown hand.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
General Sir John Wallace; by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace; bequeathed to his brother, Colonel F.J. Wallace; acquired by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from the London dealer Pearson.
Summary
Discussing "the papers of the Mirror and Lounger"; wishing she had "that worldly wisdom ... of holding [her] tongue when [she is] out of humour"; telling him that it would give her "infinite pleasure" to "contribute in the very smallest degree to [his] happiness or the bettering of [his] situation by any effort of [hers]"; reporting that she has been "endeavouring to secure [William] Corbet in [Burns's] interest"; mentioning that Jenny [Janet] Little almost had to have her foot amputated.
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